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Arab Fathers and SonsThe deaths of Yasir Arafat and of Sheikh Zayd, the long-standing ruler of the United Arab Emirates, continues the generational change that began in 1999-2000, when the leaders of Jordan, Morocco, Bahrain, and Syria died in quick
succession.
Our elected leaders, often among the first to demand sound strategy,
succession
planning, and accountability in the private sector, have spectacularly failed to practice what they preach.
The
succession
of financial crises that stained the 1990s had many and varied causes, but dysfunctional regulatory arrangements usually aggravated the effects.
A disintegrating Iraq would draw all its neighbors and other powers in the region into an undeclared war of
succession.
As no regional power is strong enough to win a war of
succession
outright, all of these powers could only lose if a conflict ensues.
Dynastic AsiaSINGAPORE – To the extent that culture matters in politics, the recent spate of leadership changes in Northeast Asia suggests that Asian societies are more tolerant – if not supportive – of dynastic
succession.
Is dynastic
succession
becoming the norm throughout Asia?
Again, dynastic
succession
does not ensure success.
Indeed, the changes brought about by Yugoslavia's dissolution and the wars of
succession
that followed annihilated large parts of the traditional education and training systems of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, and Kosovo.
After that, “labor-saving innovation” took a back seat to “a
succession
of entertainment and communication devices that do the same things as we could do before, but now in smaller and more convenient packages.”
Some believe that North Korea has begun displaying its growing nuclear threat in order to secure the
succession
to power of Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-il’s rotund, twenty-something youngest son.
Even those who encouraged the military intervention, believing that it was needed to restore law and order or to maintain stability during the looming royal succession, are having second thoughts.
The veil of ignorance changes the nature of the discussion on almost every issue, from executive pay, wage discrepancies, and working conditions to long-term strategy,
succession
planning, and much more.
Even when well run, democracy took little interest in the distant future, aristocracy took little interest in the well-being of those whom Simpson calls the “little people,” and monarchy took little interest in anything other than legitimate
succession.
These include 15-19-year-old women in poor countries, who currently have the least access to contraception, and women who have multiple pregnancies in quick succession, by allowing them to space out their pregnancies.
“Enough is enough,” a mid-level North Korean government official recently uttered in a private conversation with a South Korean visitor to Pyongyang regarding Kim Jong-eun’s likely
succession.
Ordinary North Koreans, too, evidently seem to view this
succession
differently from that of Kim Jong-il’s inheritance of power from his father, Kim Il-sung.
Managing your
succession
is a key task for any leader, one that must not be left until it is too late.
For Bashar al-Assad selection as the replacement for his father, within minutes of Assad's death on June 10, 2000, had stunned Syria's entire system, despite the years of preparing public opinion for this
succession.
The entire Bush administration has been a
succession
of leadership failures, so why harp on its poor financial management?
All Central Asian countries suffer from pervasive corruption, acute income inequalities, political
succession
problems, and transnational criminal groups that cooperate more effectively than the region’s frequently feuding governments do.
This includes focusing at the leadership level on good
succession
plans, mobility strategies, and diversity programs – not relegating these initiatives to a business-planning afterthought.
Objectively, it is difficult to be fair-minded about a gulag state that stifles free expression more thoroughly than the worst Middle East autocrats ever could, and that manages its population’s daily needs in a way that can charitably be described as medieval (a description that could also be applied to its
succession
process).
The European Commission looked with approval on a
succession
of initiatives – a new penal code adopting “modern European standards,” training programs on the European Convention of Human Rights, expert missions from the European Union, and constitutional amendments seemingly guaranteeing much greater judicial independence.
For the next couple of months, a
succession
of companies will talk about what influenced their performance over the previous year, what they are planning for the future, and the decisions that their boards have made.
Another factor arose from the fact that Tamils, on the whole, had been open to a
succession
of Portuguese, Dutch, and British administrations from the 16th century onwards, while most Sinhalese lived under their own king in the Kandyan kingdom until the 19th century.
Despite a rapid
succession
of significant steps, citizens throughout the EU sense too little improvement where it matters most – in their everyday lives.
A successful long-term strategy cannot be seen as a
succession
of short-term fixes.
These laws, originally promulgated by the British in colonial India and made more draconian by a
succession
of Pakistani administrations, make any comment considered to be disrespectful toward Islam or the Prophet Muhammad an offense punishable by death.
After 50 years without a single new TB drug being developed, two – bedaquiline and delamanid – were approved in quick
succession.
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